THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Known for mounting
the severed heads of its rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies
from bridges in cities throughout Mexico, Los Zetas easily has become the most
feared criminal gang in Mexico.

“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.”Washington Times

DEPORTATION
LIES – They’re swarming ourborders today!

TOMORROW they will have an American
jobs, sign up for ANCHOR BABY WELFARE and register to vote DEM!

“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration
and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and
the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't
feel safe in their communities.”- AZ Gov. JanBrewer

DEPT. HOMELAND SECURITY – OBAMA’S LA RAZA WELCOME WAGON

As Barack Obama has squandered BILLIONS defending the borders
of Muslim dictators, he has from day one sabotaged American borders with
NARCOMEX.

LA RAZA
NANCY PELOSI’S STATE IS NOW A COLONY OF MEXICO. THE STATE HANDS OUT $25 BILLION
IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AND HALF THE MURDERS ARE BY MEX GANGS!

FOR PELOSI,
IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING THE DEM PARTY BASE WITH LOOTING MEXICANS!

LA RAZA-OCCUPATION and LOOTING in MEXIFORNIA…. shocking!

Californians bear an enormous fiscal
burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million
residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services
for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of
about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.

The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary'
cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in
tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained
by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain
that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal
immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions
of dollars."

HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA HAS PROMISED
ILLEGALS, MEXICO and LA RAZA THAT SHOULD AMNESTY FAIL, HE WILL CONTINUE HIS
POLICIES OF NON-ENFORCEMENT, SABOTAGE OF E-VERIFY AND OUR BORDERS TO EASE
MILLIONS MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR VOTING BOOTHS AND JOBS!

Advocates for amnesty argue that the 11 million
immigrants in the country illegally should be legalized (but what if there are
40 million? What’s the math then?).

They claim we need to
bring illegal immigrants “out of the shadows.” But illegal immigrants are very
visible — they attend public schools, obtain health services at hospital
emergency rooms at taxpayer expense and even testify before Congress.

“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration
policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for
low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers
lose $190 (DATED FIGURES NOW ESTIMATED TO BE
$450 BILLION) billion annually in depressed wages
caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage
end.” Christian
Science Monitor

“King, R-Iowa, said proponents of
immigration reform include “elitists who want cheap labor to clean their houses
and mow their lawn,” business leaders who want to keep wages low and Democrats
looking for more voters. You don’t sacrifice the rule of law,” King said, “so
you can have undocumented Democrats.”

Illegal
immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters,
millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive
overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that
illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal
immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions
of dollars."

“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the
U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexicanhave transformed parts of the state into a
war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.

Lamar Smith: Obama's amnesty
for illegal immigrants is against the law. The Obama administration decision for immunity from
deportation for young illegal immigrants is a breach of faith with Americans.
It also blatantly ignores the law. This isn't the first time Obama has waived
rules or refused to enforce laws against illegal immigration, writes Rep. Smith
(2013).

“The American
people have begged and pleaded for years for our laws to be enforced,” Sessions
said in his statement calling for the American people to rise up. “We have
people in our own country living in violence, fear and poverty every single
day. They have demanded an immigration
policy that puts their jobs, wages and communities first. Every citizen
should pick up the phone and ask of their congressional representative: where
do you stand?” SEN. JEFF SESSIONS

“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.”Washington Times

VIVA LA RAZA
SUPREMACY: just look at the mex fascist illegals are electing on local and
national levels!

………….. come
to California where most service business ONLY HIRE MEXICANS and the language
spoken is overwhelmingly SPANISH…. and you wondered why the Democrat party has
long sabotaged E-VERIFY?

“In
Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens
hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in
denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights movement
like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen
as the enemy. [22.3]In fact, racism
as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal
alien Latino works--the vast majority of
the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians,
and others.”

“Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-AL) warned his colleagues in Congress that Americans will vote them
out of office in November if they do not act this week to thwart President
Barack Obama's plans to grant work permits and amnesty to up to eight million
more Americans via executive fiat.”

“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration
and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and
the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't
feel safe in theircommunities.”- AZ Gov. JanBrewer

Up to 90 percent of the drug traffickers arrested
in Arizona are in the country illegally, a clear indication of the nexus
between illegal immigration and the drug epidemic, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
said.
He said a recent check of 4,000 of the jail inmates in his area
showed almost all were here illegally and 37 percent of them returned after
being turned over to the government.

“Make no mistake about it: the Latino
community holds this election in your hands. Some of the closest contests this
November will be in states like Florida, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico --
states with large Latino populations.”
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA

“I know how powerful this community is.
Just think how powerful you could be on November 4th if you translate your
numbers into votes.” PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
BARACK OBAMA

OBAMA’S
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA – The rise of the Mex welfare state in America

“What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership
dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just
like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges
than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a
driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You
may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the
expense of taxpaying Americans.” ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, CALIFORNIA PAYS OUT
$25 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS… not one legal voted to be
Mexico’s welfare office!

THE
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE OUT OF 2,500 U.S. CITIES AND HAUL BACK TENS OF
BILLIONS IN CASH WHERE THEY BUY MEX POLITICIANS TO DO THEIR BIDDING.

THERE
IS NO ONE THAT WORKS HARDER FOR THE CARTELS DRIVE FOR OPEN BORDERS THAN BARACK
OBAMA.

In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal
drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are
the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the
global agenda of the Democratic Party.

“While the Obama Administration
downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal
that Mexican have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where
shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.

"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services
to non-citizens --- was the last gasp of white America in California." ---
Art Torres, Chairman of the California
Democratic Party… NOW THE PARTY for LA RAZA SUPREMACY… do a search for Barack
Obama and LA RAZA.

"The
American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico
without firing a single shot." --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico

"But
instead of getting serious about border security, the Obama administration
views the ongoing invasion by gang members, criminals, and other illegal
immigrants from Central America as an opportunity to dynamite what remains of
the nation’s southern border. He doesn’t care that plenty of illegal aliens,
many of them children, are dying in the act of crossing the border. They are
mere collateral damage in the pursuit of so-called justice."

“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and
everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the
kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't
feel safe in their communities.”- AZ Gov.
Jan Brewer

OHIO SHERIFF RICHARD JONES STANDS UP TO THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN
HIS DISTRICT

“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and
everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the
kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't
feel safe in their communities.”- AZ Gov.
Jan Brewer

Wilkes noted that “Hispanics will account for 52 percent of
our nation’s total population growth” throughout the coming four decades and
will “make up 74 percent of the growth in the nation’s labor force from now
until 2020.” The 11.3 percent unemployment rate among Latinos suggests that
“having a wireless phone can make the difference between someone receiving the
call for a job interview or missing that opportunity altogether.

“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION
OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation

"The amnesty alone will be the largest
expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector,
a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary
Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to
hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very
narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If
even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on
Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."

THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S BORDERS… Obama
and his Wall Street banksters

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

Jose Herria emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to
work as a fruit picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three
children, 19, 12 and 8 -- all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth
child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor
baby" -- an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio
clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.

THE ENTIRE
REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED!

“The U.S. Chamber is in the pocket of
Communist China and big companies seeking cheap labor in the United States. We
think it is morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of public
policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so they can keep
labor costs down for their fortune 500 member companies.”

I
believe that the big problem is that both parties (and even some third-party movements)
have become extensions of the "Plutocrat party." As an example, See
the Sunshine Foundation's March 25, 2013 report, "Untangling the Webs of
Immigration Lobbying" http://sunlightfoundation.com/...
We learn that "And in the five years (2008-2012) since the reform last
died on the Senate floor, we count 6,712 quarterly lobbying reports filed by
678 lobbying organizations in 170 sectors mentioning 987 unique bills,
associated with more than $1.5 billion in lobbying spending." Since then,
the estimated total has risen to about $2 billion.
Spending this lavishly means that these economic elites stand to benefit
handsomely from immigration liberalization. How? The resultant immigration-stoked
labor gluts across a broad spectrum of occupational titles ranging from medical
doctor to unskilled labor reduces wages and benefits. Such a change benefits
the Banker Class. Immigration - driven population increases also bid up the
costs of the necessaries of life such as shelter, food, diapers, medical
expenses, etc. The 1%ers benefit from those price increases.
There are some corrupt lobbyists such as felon Jack A. Abramoff involved in
steering this tidal wave of lobbying dollars. Search by title for the PDF of
the 2007 article, "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit" to learn
more. Then join citizen empowerment groups such as NumbersUSA dot com, FAIRUS
dot org, and CAPSweb dot org to demand genuine immigration reform from our elected
leaders.

As Congress inches
toward major immigration legislation, a new Sunlight Foundation analysis (based
on almost 8,000 lobbying reports) offers a comprehensive and interactive guide to the web of interests with something at
stake.

As legislation
continues to take shape, a wide range of sectors will continue flooding
Congress with their lobbyists, trying to make sure that their particular
concerns are fully addressed. These visualizations can help to better
understand who these interests are, what they care about, and how intensely
they are likely to lobby to get what they want.

Figure 1 gives us
the big picture. The network connects lobbying interests with the specific
immigration bills on which they’ve lobbied. The size of the circles represents
the amount of lobbying activity. We’ve given a different color to each of 34
distinct sub-issues identified by a textual analysis of bill summaries (see our
methodology section for more details).

The network can be
viewed in three ways:

1.By zooming out and viewing it as a whole (Figure 1), we can see five
somewhat (though not entirely) distinct clusters, representing five major
immigration lobbying hotspots in recent years.

2.By zooming in and looking at each of the hotspots in more detail (Clusters
A-F), we see more messiness, representing the wider range of interests and
sub-issues in each of the clusters.

3.Finally, and most importantly, by exploring our interactive graphic, you can investigate the links
between every interest, issue and bill. There are thousands of links to
uncover.

(To understand
how we built this visualization, visit our methodology section at the end of
this post.)

That immigration
policy attracts a tangled web of lobbyists from a wide swath of the economy and
dozens of advocacy interests will not be news to those who have followed the
issue for years. After all, the last time Congress tried to pass immigration
reform, the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2007 stretched to 789 pages.

And in the five
years (2008-2012) since the reform last died on the Senate floor, we count
6,712 quarterly lobbying reports filed by 678 lobbying organizations in 170
sectors mentioning 987 unique bills, associated with more than $1.5 billion in
lobbying spending.

Let’s look at six
identifiable clusters in a little more detail.

Cluster
A: Agricultural /H-2A Visas­­

Starting in the top left, the first cluster brings together lobbying on
agricultural work visas. A series of bills have been introduced to streamline
the H-2A agricultural worker program, based on compromises worked out over
years between agricultural employers, farm worker unions, and key lawmakers.
The bills have generally been introduced under the title “The AgJOBS Act.” As
then-Senator Ken Salazar D-CO explained
in 2007: “There are 567 organizations that have endorsed [the AgJOBS Act],
from the Colorado Farm Bureau, to the Farmers Union, to every single
agricultural organization in America. The leaders on AgJOBS in the Senate,
Senator Feinstein and Senator Craig, have been eloquent in making their
statements about the need for the agricultural community, farmers and ranchers,
to be able to have a stable workforce. We need to stop the rotting of the
vegetables and the fruits in California, in Colorado, and across this country.
The only way we are going to be able to do that is if we have a stable
workforce for agriculture.”

One other proposal
that has been heavily lobbied – “The Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act”
– would expand
the H-2A visa program to also include sheepherders and dairy workers.
Naturally, this has been of particular interest to the dairy industry, which
relies on immigrant labor. As bill sponsor Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) told
the House floor in 2009: “During the past decade, dairy farms throughout
the nation have increasingly experienced difficulty in hiring local workers to
meet their needs and, as a result, are ever more reliant upon immigrant labor.
The tremendous uncertainty regarding that labor supply has a profound impact on
their ability to plan for the future and make sound business decisions.”

Cluster
B: Seasonal / H-2B Visas

Another cluster highlights massive lobbying in support of extending the H-2B
visa worker exemption to allow non-agricultural seasonal businesses to hire
immigrant workers. As Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), sponsor of the proposal, told
the Senate floor in 2009, “Every member of the Senate who has heard from
their constituents —whether they are seafood processors, landscapers, resorts,
timber companies, fisheries, pool companies or carnivals – knows the urgency in
their voices, knows the immediacy of the problem and knows that the Congress must
act now to save these businesses. I urge my colleagues to join this effort,
support the Save our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act, and push this Congress
to fix the problem today.”

The lobbying
interests most active on these issues have been hotels and motels, restaurants,
florists and nursery services, forestry and forest products companies, and real
estate agents.

The messiest cluster is in the middle, and it largely coalesces around two
major lobbying interests: computer software and manufacturers, and the Chamber
of Commerce. The concerns of these groups overlap. Part of their lobbying
(particularly the tech companies) is aimed at high-skilled workers: retaining
math and science Ph.D. graduates, enabling high-skilled immigration generally,
and expanding H1.B and L.1 temporary visa programs. (H1-B visas allow skilled
workers in mostly engineering, science, medicine, and finance to enter the U.S.
for a limited period while L-1 visas allow employees of international companies
to work in U.S. offices of the company for a limited period.)

The other major
issue in this cluster is around the employee verification program, a web-based
system that helps employers to check whether potential employees are in fact
eligible to work in the United States. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the
computer industry have lobbied heavily on this issue. This cluster also catches
some concerns over homeland security, border enforcement, and travel visas, and
brings in the building trade unions and the lodging and tourism sector.

Cluster
D: Family issues

A smaller cluster on the right centers around advocacy on family-related
issues, with the most lobbying centering on legislation known as the “Uniting
American Families Act” which provides family immigration benefits for same-sex
couples. As Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), one of the sponsors of the legislation
put it on
the Senate floor in 2012: “My legislation would grant same-sex binational
couples the same immigration benefits provided to heterosexual couples. Passage
of this important legislation would help put our country on par with over 25
other developed countries that value and respect human rights.” Lobbying
interests in this space include gay and lesbian groups, liberal advocacy
groups, and some religious organizations.

This issue and
lobbying cluster also covers some issues related to child protection and
asylum. The major interest lobbying on these issues are lawyers.

Cluster
E: "Dream Act", general path to citizenship, enforcement

The cluster at the bottom of the network centers primarily around a single
piece of major legislation, The Dream Act, and the two sectors most interested
in advancing its passage: minority and ethnic groups, and schools &
colleges. The Dream Act would create a path to citizenship for young people
brought to the U.S. as children who go to college or serve in the military.

This cluster also
covers other primary lobbying concerns of minority and ethnic groups, including
a set of tough-on-immigration enforcement and criminal justice-related bills,
as well as some bills covering various path-to-citizenship issues.

Cluster
F: Performing artist visas

Finally, there is one small cluster of lobbying that is on its own. Live
theater, museums, bands, orchestras, and other artistic performance industries
have lobbied for special visa exemptions for performing artists. The most
active bill in this cluster is H.R. 1785 from the 1111th congress, the Arts Require
Timely Service (ARTS) Act, which would require expedited processing of visas
petitions filed by employers on behalf of individuals with extraordinary
artistic ability.

As Senate bill
sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told
the Senate floor in 2009: “There is no doubt that nonprofit arts
organizations across the country engage foreign guest artists in their
orchestras, theatres, and dance and opera companies. In my home state of Utah,
I am aware that many organizations that will benefit from passage of the ARTS
Act, including Brigham Young University, Cache Valley Center for the Arts, The
Orchestra of Southern Utah, University of Utah, Murray Symphony Orchestra, Salt
Lake Symphony, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival, to name a few.”

This cluster would
normally have been filtered according to the methodology we used (see below)
but we left it in because it is good example of a specialty niche issue within
the larger constellation of immigration lobbying.

Who
lobbies the most?

Another way to
slice the data is to look at which sectors are the most active, and on which
issues. For full underlying data on all sectors and all issues, click here.

Table 1. 20 most active sectors
and their issues

sector

Total
bill mentions

Gini

Top
Issue

#2
Issue

Minority/Ethnic Groups

760

0.549

Dream Act, 63

Reuniting Families, 40

Schools & colleges

624

0.866

Dream Act, 173

Science Tech workers, 19

Chambers of commerce

508

0.657

General employer
responsibility, 68

E verify, 55

Computer software

420

0.763

Science Tech workers, 49

H1 B and L 1, 30

Milk & dairy
producers

369

0.952

Agricultural Jobs, 132

H 2A Visas, 95

Computer manufacture
& services

346

0.814

General employer
responsibility, 63

E verify, 51

Building trades unions

320

0.816

Veterans affairs, 26

Border funding, 18

Farm organizations &
cooperatives

263

0.959

Agricultural Jobs, 94

H 2A Visas, 59

Attorneys & law firms

240

0.738

Child Protection /
Asylum, 42

Dream Act, 15

Computers, components
& accessories

239

0.869

Science Tech workers, 45

High Skilled Immigration,
20

Lodging & tourism

193

0.885

Travel / extended stay,
51

Travel Visa, 27

Florists & Nursery
Services

181

0.939

Seasonal businesses, 63

Agricultural Jobs, 19

Meat processing &
products

176

0.888

E verify, 38

Border enforcement, 26

Human Rights

174

0.806

Dream Act, 19

Uniting Same-sex
Families, 18

Democratic/Liberal

170

0.76

Dream Act, 29

Uniting Same-sex
Families, 22

Restaurants &
drinking establishments

153

0.901

Seasonal businesses, 27

General enforcement, 18

Hotels & motels

150

0.918

Seasonal businesses, 33

healthcare coverage, 17

Data processing &
computer services

146

0.791

Homeland security, 16

Border funding, 12

Pro-Israel

114

0.818

Dream Act, 18

Reuniting Families, 11

(numbers for
each issue represent bill mentions in issue area)

Table 1 gives us
the sectors that have been most active on immigration, and the issues on which
they’ve been the most active. Our measure of activity is lobbying bill mentions
– that is, each time a sector mentions an immigration-related bill in a
lobbying report, we count it as a bill mention.

The “Gini”
coefficient is a measure how much each sector’s lobbying is concentrated on a
narrow set of issues. The closer the Gini value is to 1.0, the more
concentrated the lobbying. Not surprisingly, minority and ethnic groups have
the most lobbying bill mentions in our data (760) and the lowest Gini
coefficient (0.549), representing a very diverse set of issues on which they
lobby.

Schools and
Colleges are the second most active sector. They also show a tremendous
interest in the Dream Act, which is not surprising since the Dream Act concerns
higher education. Chambers of Commerce (primarily the U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
have been particularly interested in lobbying on employer responsibility
issues. Computer software companies have been lobbying heavily to get more
high-skilled workers. And milk and dairy producers have been lobbying for
reform to the agricultural visa programs.

Among unions, the
building trades union has been the most active. It’s worth noting that among
the top lobbying sectors, a few have very high Gini coefficients (e.g. farm
organizations & cooperatives at 0.959, and milk & diary producers at
0.952), meaning that their lobbying is intensely concentrated on just a few
bills. By contrast, groups like the Chamber of Commerce and minority and ethnic
groups have a much broader issue profile in this space.

Most active
issues

We can also slice
our data based on which issues got the most bill mentions, which generates a
statistical tie between agricultural jobs and the Dream Act, with issues
related to permanent residences for math and science Ph.D.s, employer
responsibility, and small and seasonal business issues coming in close behind.

Table 2. 20 most active issues
and their top sectors

Issue

Total

Gini

Top
Sector

#2
Sector

Agricultural Jobs

510

0.953

Milk & dairy
producers, 132

Farm organizations &
cooperatives, 94

Dream Act

504

0.945

Schools & colleges,
173

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
63

Science & Tech
workers

372

0.902

Computer software, 49

Computers, components
& accessories, 45

General employer
responsibility

359

0.935

Chambers of commerce, 68

Computer manufacture
& services, 63

Seasonal businesses

320

0.945

Florists & Nursery
Services, 63

Hotels & motels, 33

Homeland security

263

0.902

Transportation, 31

Lodging & tourism, 23

General enforcement

247

0.921

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
38

Chambers of commerce, 19

H-2A Visas

241

0.963

Milk & dairy
producers, 95

Farm organizations &
cooperatives, 59

E-verify

233

0.964

Chambers of commerce, 55

Computer manufacture
& services, 51

Border enforcement

231

0.882

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
33

Meat processing &
products, 26

Defense funding

223

0.897

Computer manufacture
& services, 23

Lodging & tourism, 20

H1-B and L-1

217

0.925

Computer software, 30

Electronics manufacturing
& services, 27

Border funding

217

0.955

Chambers of commerce, 34

Computer software, 18

Uniting Same-sex Families

217

0.968

Gay & lesbian rights
& issues, 55

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
35

High- Skilled Immigration

206

0.922

Computer software, 29

Computers, components
& accessories, 20

Reuniting Families

169

0.954

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
40

Human Rights, 16

Criminal justice

158

0.957

Computer software, 19

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
13

Healthcare funding

151

0.926

Computer software, 23

Online computer services,
8

Travel / extended stay

144

0.959

Lodging & tourism, 51

Minority/Ethnic Groups,
18

(numbers for
each sector represent bill mentions in that issue area)

Not surprisingly,
agricultural jobs issues are lobbied on very heavily by the agricultural
industries, especially the milk and dairy producers, the farm organizations and
cooperatives, and the vegetable and fruit industries. The Dream Act is
primarily lobbied on by universities, minority and ethnic groups, and
Democratic-leaning non-profits. Getting more math and science Ph.D.s is of
particular interest to the computer industry.

From the high Gini
coefficients, we can tell that almost all of these issues are of interest to
only a handful of sectors.

Conclusion

As comprehensive
immigration goes forward, a wide range of lobbying sectors are going to be
fighting to make sure that their particular concerns get included in the final
reform (we count 170 sectors who have registered an interest since 2007).

Our analysis shows
that the immigration debate is both structured and chaotic. When we zoom out to
see the entire network in one glimpse (Figure 1) we can see five big clusters
of activity on immigration. When we zoom in, we see much more messiness: lots
of sectors, lots of bills, lots of interests, and many overlaps and tangles. In
other words, a lot of clamoring is about to take place. We hope you will spend
some time exploring our interactive graphic to see for yourself who cares about
what and how much.

Methodology

We began our
analysis with all bills mentioned in lobbying disclosure forms under the category
of immigration during the 109th – 112th congresses. We then
excluded the top two percent of most lobbied bills – generally omnibus bills -
leaving a corpus of more specific single-issue immigration reform bills. The
remaining 915 bills were classified into sub-categories based on the text of bill
summaries produced by the Congressional Research Service. To create issue
categories we used Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) -- a
form of natural language processing commonly used for text comparison -- to
measure the conceptual similarity of the bills. We then clustered the most
similar bills together with hierarchical
agglomerative clustering. This process ensured that the most conceptually
similar bills – at least according to the content of their CRS summaries – were
treated as belonging to similar issue areas, like H-2A visa reform, or the
Dream Act, under the umbrella of immigration reform. We manually labeled the
resulting 34 clusters based on their contents.

We then applied the
labels (denoted by color) from this clustering to the bills in the network
representation of lobbying activity shown above. The nodes in this bipartite
network represent specific bills and the industries (based on Center for
Responsive Politics’ industry classifications) that lobbied on them. The
weighted directed edges are based on the number of lobbying reports filed by
the given industry that mentioned the given bill. To highlight significant
activity, we filtered the network visualization to show only the subgraph with
a k-core of 3. The graph
layout was done using the Gephi implementation of the OpenOrd
algorithm, which employs aggressive edge-cutting to promote clustering.

correction
(5/17/13): We removed a reference to the number of lobbyists working on
immigration. This story had linked to a piece from
our reporting group, which made an incorrect assessment about the number of
lobbyists. That piece has been updated.

“What
we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by
not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World
corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans.
If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or
insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without
paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying
Americans.”

IN AMERICAN
HISTORY, THERE HAVE BEEN FEW, IF ANY LOOTERS OFF ELECTED OFFICE THAT RAKED IN
MORE THAN OBAMA DONOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM.

WHERE
FEINSTEIN FORAGES AND VOTES, BLUM FILLS HIS POCKETS WITH HER LOOT.

THEIR S.F. WAR
PROFITEER’S MANSION ALONE COST $16 MILLION

“We need to provide our farms a legal way to hire workers
that they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn legal status. And our
laws should respect families following the rules — reuniting them more quickly
instead of splitting them apart,” Mr.
Obama said in a major speech
on the subject in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.

Some in Congress are
once again trying to push piecemeal immigration reform through the back door.
Sen. Diane Feinstein of California attached a farm worker program to the
multibillion dollar Iraq war funding bill yesterday which would grant temporary
amnesty to 1.3 million farm workers and their families over the next five
years.

“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and
Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”THE WAY OUR GOVERNMENT AVOID THE BELOW
IS WITH OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS TO PERMIT HORDES OF ILLEGALS TO
JUMP OUR BORDERS AND JOBS… then the American middle class gets the tax bills
for the staggering cost of Mexico’s looting.

There are ample resources to guarantee every worker and young
person a job at decent pay, a high quality education, decent housing and
nutrition, access to culture, and a secure retirement—the basic social rights
which every person should enjoy.